Everyone talks about overtraining, but what exactly is it and when do you know you're overtrained and what do you do about it?
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about 8 years ago, with another sport, I overtrained, very badly.
A combination of inappropriate nutrition and pushing too hard.
I was on a near non-fat kick, and would get too worried that eating too much protein I was ingesting too many incidental fats, so I did high carbs.
At soime point, I got skinny, but I wasn't getting any stronger, any more toned up. Then I started allergies, mild asthma - which I never had before, major performance plateu, and then it ended up with a walking pneumonia and finished off worh a real pneumonia. Just the pnumonia part had me out of comission from september through february, cause it kept flaring up once every few weeks.
At firts, I had the attitude of, oh, it's just a little cough, I'll muscle through it... or 2 days later, oh, I'm feeling fine, let's get back on track.
Atr that time, I was doing it on my own, didn't have access to coaching.
After that, up untill this last year, I never got really enthusiastic about any kind of serious training. I mean, not even to get in shape.
Well, I've learned a lot since then. Doing it differently this time.
about 8 years ago, with another sport, I overtrained, very badly.
A combination of inappropriate nutrition and pushing too hard.
I was on a near non-fat kick, and would get too worried that eating too much protein I was ingesting too many incidental fats, so I did high carbs.
At soime point, I got skinny, but I wasn't getting any stronger, any more toned up. Then I started allergies, mild asthma - which I never had before, major performance plateu, and then it ended up with a walking pneumonia and finished off worh a real pneumonia. Just the pnumonia part had me out of comission from september through february, cause it kept flaring up once every few weeks.
At firts, I had the attitude of, oh, it's just a little cough, I'll muscle through it... or 2 days later, oh, I'm feeling fine, let's get back on track.
Atr that time, I was doing it on my own, didn't have access to coaching.
After that, up untill this last year, I never got really enthusiastic about any kind of serious training. I mean, not even to get in shape.
Well, I've learned a lot since then. Doing it differently this time.
